Made light work of more progress

Placed some strategic holes in the base plate to add lightening. They were designed for position and size, in other words not randomly placed.

Lightening holes (Not lightning holes)

I also made the exhaust pipes, large in diameter to muffle the bark. Aluminium inserts are pressed into each end of a stainless steel tube and the assembly is screwed to the cylinder head using an M3 socket cap head screw.

Exhaust stacks fitted

I've just looked back through my blogs and discovered that I started building this engine late in 2008

I went flying today as the forecast was good and with light winds. 'Tiz different when you get there, it was good earlier but the wind got stronger for the North West and by lunch time it was really cutting and Ipacked up and went home. Not before flying the Sunbeam and the Pico-Jet, and on the second flight with the Pico-Jet the prop parted company with the motor. All the bits flew off and scattered on the runway - time to land.

Phil was there with his Funtana. Look at the kit he's got to charge the batteries. That's not all, there's also a generator to power it all up.

No less than FOUR chargers

Phils Funtana

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